Truth About The Muhammad Movie

This morning, headlines around the world declared that an anti-Islam video on YouTube had incited angry mobs at U.S. embassies in Cairo and Benghazi. The violent riot in Libya resulted in the murder of four Americans, including the ambassador, but little remains known about the film that arguably sparked the protest.

Here’s what we’ve turned up:

Based on some of the resumes of the actors in the film, the movie, which was eventually called “Innocence of Muslims,” was initially listed as “Desert Warrior.” The casting call, which went up in August 2011, looked like this:

Please place Role desired in SUBJECT: line of email.
Indicate SAG or NON-SAG
Require phone contact for immediate interview in Beverly/LaCienega area.

Note that the director listed is Alan Roberts and not Sam Bacile. However, the company who carried out the casting call was named Pharaoh Voices, Inc, a California company whose listed president is one Youssef Basseley (not a far phonetic cry from Bacile). Youssef Basseley also appears in a California court case involving a guilty plea to the crime of bank fraud. Meanwhile, variations of Sam Bacile/Basseley appear on other resumes of the actors in the film, listing him as the director or producer.

According to one of the film’s actors, the actors were duped by producers about the nature of the film. Based on the casting call above, that seems highly plausible. A comment made by one of the film’s actresses on YouTube seems to corroborate this claim:

Yes things did not turn out at all like i thought they would, I was edited into parts, i have not even seen the whole movie. My only role was that of a mother loosing [sic] her daughter. And I am on my way to heaven . I am a Christian servant of the Lord God Jesus Christ is my Savior

Gawker has now released an interview with the actress who claims that her lines were dubbed. On the Media blog showcased multiple instances in which the actor’s lines were changed in post-production to religious references.

For example, at 2:53, the voiceover says “His name is Muhammed. And we can call him The Father Unknown.” In this case, the whole line is dubbed, and it appears the actor is actually saying, “His name is George (?). And we can call him The Father Unknown.” I assume the filmmakers thought they were being slick, thinking that dubbing the whole line instead of just the name would make it more seamless and less noticeable to the viewer. But once you start to look for these dubs, it’s hard to see anything else.

The cast has since released a statement decrying the producers’ deceit.

More on the identity of Sam Bacile, whom the Wall Street Journal spoke with earlier today, who seems to have been an invented figure. The handle Sam Bacile appears on a YouTube account, which is written entirely in Arabic (and not Hebrew). The user posted the now infamous trailer to the Muhammad film four days ago, but otherwise has not been active, save for a “favoriting” a video put out by the Al-Nour Party in Egypt, an ultra-conservative Salafist party that won nearly 28% of the vote in Egypt’s parliamentary elections earlier this year.

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Because they wanted to demonize Israel and the Jews, just as the people involved in this production did! This ‘film’ was undoubtedly made by Islamist propagandists to incite violence.

The media leapt at the chance to blame the Jews! Before any facts were known, all the major media including PBS reported that the Israelis and American Jews were responsible!
The greatest irony is that Mitt Romney is now being castigated for jumping the gun to politicize the tragedy. But the media did the same and obviously no one’s complaining about that!

So, umm…we should prohibit any speech that might incite violence, huh? Should we jail the folks who made The Last Tempation of Christ? Or how ’bout the author(s) of the play going ’round that portrays Jesus and the Apostles as homos? Or are they OK because Christians aren’t likely to resort to violence, while offending mohammedans is forbidden, because they *are* likely to respond violently? Wouldn’t that simply encourage other groups (like Christians, e.g.) to resort to violence, since the works for the mohammedans?
Or perhaps we somehow, psychically, perhaps, decide that the film-maker had in mind an intention to offend the Religion of Perpetual Outrage, for purpose of inciting violence. ‘Course the producers/authors/directors of the things I referenced above pretty much had to figure they would be offending Christians…which brings me back to my first question.

You’re right, I think, but that isn’t the issue. The issue is whether or not we suppress speech that offends a particular religion. If so, the folks who authored and produced that play (as well as Bill Maher for *his* movie) should be punished. If not, we should stop apologizing for the silly movie that (according to the Obama regime, despite evidence to the contrary) caused the mohammedans to go bug-nuts violent. Or…and I frankly suspect this is nearer the truth of it – is it OK to offend *SOME* religions but not others (unless, of course, one has given a million dollars to Emperor Palpatine’s campaign, in which case all bets are off).

Just like Isreal has apologized to Turkey for murdering 9 of their citizens? Or like Isreal has apologized to the US for the attack on the USS Liberty or for murdering Rachel Corey? Or just like they have apologized to Iran for murdering their scientists inside their own country? Or just like they have apologized to the Palestinians for stealing their land? Or just like they’ve apologized to Iraq and Syria for bombing them? Or just like they have apologized to Lebanon for attacking them? Just like that?

I’d like to know why antisemitic liars like this La Cucaracha creature are not automatically deleted from this, a supposedly pro-Jewish website. If they want to exercise their free-speech rights there’s an entire internet to do that. Tablet management are not obligated to waste their space on vermin of this sort. Kick him out.

What the thumb sucking media needs to do is state that since cranks use YouTube we need to ban YouTube, otherwise the Religion of the Perpetually Aggrieved will keep on acting like children and destroy things and murder people.

I’m not in favor of banning anything. It’s left-wing ‘elites’ who are advocating that we need to respect Islam by only bashing evangelical Christians. And I’m sick of this Administration for apologizing for some morons video.

I agree, there is no need to apolagise! Yes it was an amateur movie that painted the Islamic religion in a bad light. SO WHAT!!!! Every religion has this happen to them, and I don’t see them killing people in violent protests. Muslims seem to believe that they are superior, well no one is superior.

As a Jew in Hollywood I can tell you that something we know how to do for sure is make movies. Based on the still photos coming out, this film looks it was produced with $40 worth of green-screen, $20 in makeup and a $1000 for the camera. If this guy raised $5 million from “Jewish” donors, he ripped them off. Anyone can say they are an American Israeli, an Italian Canadian, or a Leprechaun from Australia and upload a crappy video to YouTube. All of the media outlets jumped on the Israeli Filmmaker/Jewish Real Estate broker bandwagon without waiting a moment to fact check. Haaretz had a lead stating “Israeli Filmmaker Goes into Hiding”. Not enough that the world accuses us of every atrocity, but we have to do it to ourselves now as well?

And you should have read the french papers like “Le Monde” or “l’Express”, they we’re so happy to hook this store to Israelis and Jews, that they kept it well onto thursday evening. No one seemed to notice that this hundred jews gathering to fund the movie against Islam, was just a reload of the Protocol of the Elders of Zion, where 300 jews conspire for world take over

Yes you’re right, Jews are always innocent! You haven’t done Sep 11.. You didn’t get US to attack Iraq for false flag, you didn’t get US to Afghanistan..

In fact when Israel attack Iran soon.. it will not even be Israel’s fault! It will be the US to blame since US is backing up your asses.

You have driven the world to an unknown destination, You know well how to twist facts and get them into your side. Hitler was the only one who knew everything about you (Jews).

I can’t believe how Americans are so brainwashed, Why in every US election a war should start by the US/Israel ? Why every candidate has to go to Israel to pay loyalty when he’s not even Jewish or Israeli ?

Why Americans are not allowed to ask questions about the sep 11 and the WTC 7 building?

I have got thousand why(s) but i’m sure none will agree because they feel that you Jews are on their side.. but it’s not too long before they find out that they have been ass fingered all this time.

No the Martians did it. Forget about all those named guys from Saudi Arabia and Osama bin Laden’s own boasts on his videos, it was all a Martian actors guild with heavy make-up and phoney Arabian accents.

We are being manipulated into war by pro Israel extremists; this film was released to provoke attacks against US embassies in the middle east to get the US to be more agreeable to Israeli plans to attack Iran.

yeah and guess what ??? he is an Arab, Egyptian and also a Christian ! I wouldn’t doubt that Israel and Jews are behind it neither … rings a bell ? Sep 11th was an inside job when more than 400 jews were out of the seen on that particular day .. some exact 11 years ago.

Do we blame a wife when her husband beats her? “She made me do it,” he says. And now we blame a film-maker, or our government, or ourselves, when a group of men throwing grenades & rockets attack our property. “The Americans made us do it,” they say.
Whaaat??
The only people to blame for violence are the people who perpetrate the violence.

In this case the wife the should be Muslim my dear friend because she has been taking brutal beatings by her Western husband since 1950’s.Her family killed and their home destroyed by her Husband.

After all the brutal beatings she also has to suffer the filthy comments made upon her by the family and society of her husband who call her evil ,cavewomen, parasite , destroyer of the family etc and when she objects to this they feel offended and insult her even more .

They tell her its the right of the family to insult her and her objections will only result in more insults.

The suspicious mother and sister in law’s of the wife have made her husband block and forfeit all the money she has because these jealous canny ladies think their daughter in law can use the money against them.

May be the wife has had enough and turned Violent after all of the mental and physical abuse she has suffered from all these years.

She should remain calm and sue the husband and his family in Court for years of oppression ,threats , insults and brutal Domestic Violence.

Some person sure will take her side and she still has faith in humanity .

This is all ridiculous, only the mohammedans would riot, burn down properties & murder because of a movie as well tragic.
Not only that, but those “people” must be plain stupid as now the movie is known about over the whole world because of their silliness. If they have been quite about it, this movie would had been unknown by the general public.
But, I guess we can unfortunately not expect any better from the mohammedans as they are still living in the 1400s.
Having writen this; I must add that the European were not any better when they were living in the 1400s. The did not only as listed on the first line above, but they burned people alive as well.

“only the mohammedans would riot.” Really? Look, what the terrorists in Benghazi did is just plain evil, not to mention tragically stupid. But the perps hardly represent all Libyans or all Muslims. America has its share of Christian terrorist like Timothy McVeigh, but I would not go around claiming that “only the Christians” would blow up a federal building and kill hundreds of people. Sadly, no religion, nation or ethnicity has a monopoly on terror and violence.

Timothy McVeigh a Christian? Perhaps in your own loosely defined translation. Yeshua said “a tree is known by its fruit” and that they (non-Christians) would know Christians by their love. He also said MANY would call Him Lord, Lord and not inherit the kingdom of heaven, inferring that many “so called” Christians are NOT and therefore relegating them to hell, Matt ch 7.

Tim McVeigh was *NOT* a Christian when he did his thing in OK City.When captured, he proclaimed “I am an atheist! Science is my religion!” (He *later* converted to Christianity, while in jail.)
The greater point is that when a Christian commits an evil act, the blame is on that person, NOT on the religion; the New Testament contains not a word commanding, enjoining, or even permitting Christians to kill folks for not being Christian, Now compare that with the koran and the haditha….When you meet the infidel, strike their necks; the rock will cry out, O muslim, there is a Jew hiding behind me/come and kill him….So yeah, there effectively *is* a religion that pretty much holds a monopoly on calls to murder, today. Ethnicity is different; that’s a matter of geography and genetics; it says nothing, necessarily, about one’s beliefs, one’s philosophy, one’s politics, etc. But accepting mohammedanism is a choice, and says a great deal about one’s beliefs, philosopy, politics…and the rest of such things.

Did you happen to miss the fact that, when Jesus said that, he was speaking NOT as himself, but as a character in a parable? Jesus NEVER commanded or permitted what you suggest. As for your second point, again, you seem to have missed something, to wit, the fact that I explicitly said “The NEW TESTAMENT.” Numbers, in case you also misread that, is in the OLD Testament. The coming of Jesus was a signal that the old ways were gone, and love along with faith and hope was the way of God.
I do agree with you, to a degree, though; it does appear *one* of us has reading comprehension problems.

every free thinking man knows the bible is a book created by the political and religiouse elite for the purpose of mass control in a the early dawn of western civilisation., it has very little to do with true christianity… but regardless of some of its barbaric texts it is interperated for in most cases for good.

The film has unarguably offended all and every single muslim but NOT all muslims WOULD riot. Ever heard of Indonesia? According to your logic, Indonesia, a country with 204+ million muslims, the biggest muslim population in the world, could have taken the leading position to march against the west. And were all 200+ million mohammedans to go rioting and overrun US mission, there would be nothing left for Obama to salvage save DNA sample of his ambassador’s remains.But fortunately, thanks God or whomever you wanna thank, no mohemmedan went rioting and no prominence incident happened in relation to the blasphemous movie.

indonesia is a country set apart from the rest of the Arab/muslim world alone and in a part of the world were it relies largely on tourism for part of its economy and trade with other non muslim countries for export. it would not be prudent for them to riot.

Isn’t that ironic? Muslims believe they must carry out their directive of Islamic domination by all means necessary. Deceit and lying are a well respected and honored approach that Muslims take with the “dirtly infidels.” They laugh and snicker at how dumb infidels are and how easily they are fooled. So the person that made the movie used deceit, lying and trickery in how it was produced, even though its content is factual. So now who is laughing and snickering?

The low budget look, and surreal effect is intended by the producers. It magnifies the satire and parody of the film which is purposeful and brilliant. Mohammed is made to look ridicules as Islamic falsehood looks ridicules to God. And of course the icing on the cake is the maniac, psychotic response of Islams followers. They look childish, foolish and evil all at the same time. The Devil would experience so much pleasure if only God’s chosen acted with such hysteria when they/Christians are persecuted and ridiculed by the antichrist world. When someone uses unjust violence they prove the weakness of their argument. Once again Muslim violence makes them look weak and insecure about their beliefs, and the demonic inspiration of the Quran that teaches them to do such insane acts.

O People of the
Scripture, do not commit excess in your religion or say about Allah except the
truth. The Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, was but a messenger of Allah and
His word which He directed to Mary and a soul [created at a command] from Him.
So believe in Allah and His messengers. And do not say, “Three”;
desist – it is better for you. Indeed, Allah is but one God. Exalted is He
above having a son. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and whatever is
on the earth. And sufficient is Allah as Disposer of affairs.

And [for] their
saying, “Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the
messenger of Allah.” And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him;
but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ
over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the
following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

And [for] their
saying, “Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the
messenger of Allah.” And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him;
but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ
over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the
following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

And [for] their
saying, “Indeed, we have killed the Messiah, Jesus, the son of Mary, the
messenger of Allah.” And they did not kill him, nor did they crucify him;
but [another] was made to resemble him to them. And indeed, those who differ
over it are in doubt about it. They have no knowledge of it except the
following of assumption. And they did not kill him, for certain.

One sure thing, the people of Syria, Libya, Iran etc… have absolutely no interest in going into a war with US/EUR. But the ones who funded this movie have. When you see the timing of Benjamin Netanyahu saying that the Occident is ‘stupid’ and should go at war against Iran, you see a pattern. I would not be surprised if the Mossad was behind all of this.

Netanyahu said that the Occident is “stupid”?
YOU ARE LIAR…!!! Here’s why…
1)Netanyahu would never call the West “Occident”.
2)Netanyahu would never anthropomorphise a geographical area! For your benefit, ignoramus, that means he would never say something as dumb as calling a country “stupid”; That would be a fallacy of misplaced concreteness, like calling a table “naughty” because your two-year-old bumped his head on it! I can see him saying “Nicolas Choukroun is stupid” but he would never say “Lebanon is stupid”.
3)Netanyahu is too good a wordsmith and too much of a politician/statesman to say something as stupid as “stupid”.
4) You offer no evidence, aural or visual, that he said this.
Bibi might, just might, have said this about you and your ilk…that you are “inebriate with the exuberance of your own verbosity”…that’s if he knew or cared about you and your ilk…

The reaction of muslims to the film,runs like this” We are peace-loving people ,for Islam is for peace, but if you don’t believe us that we are peace loving people ,We will kill you!”
The film is nothing new,what are written in their quran and depicted in the film are similar and convey the same thought. why they should protest against it.
If the film content is false,then they should protest against it . But the film content are true and factual, then ,are they protesting that the film exposed their religion . Or they protested because it exposes the true intent and objective of their religion.

Muslim, Christian, Jews, Hindus and others can live together peacefully with no doubt. But when one of them spit on the face of the others what would you expect. Everybody talks about love but is love being practice. Was there single American or European mother cried for the death of children, man and woman in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq as the result of attack by the Allied Forces or for the Palestine massacre by Israel. Otherwise, never dream for peace on earth.

Strength is not found in the individual who own a gun but in a person who has the strength to pull in the love of everybody. Jesus and Muhammad are powerful than Hitler and the president of United State of America. America with his mighty military can never conquer a single heart much more for the world but Jesus with only his hand raise the whole world would bow down.

Rayhana bint Zayd ibn Amr – was a Jewish woman from the Banu Qurayza tribe in Medina. She forced into being a sex-slave for Mohammad. After he killed all the men in her tribe and enslaved the children.

Aisha bint Abu Bakr – Aisha the daughter of Abu Bakr was 9 years old when she was married to Mohammad.

bloody bastards if i found anyone of you who are involved in this shameful activity ever in my life i,ll kill you such a death that your coming generations and your whole bastard jewish community will remember it for centuries.no one will ever had the courage to hurt MUSLIMS
MUHAMMAD HUMAYUN

I am neither Jewish nor Christian but the fact is Muhammad
done more damage to all mankind in which his act cannot comprehend by any
societies. This move or clip just an Iota of what Muhammad done. He was liar,
thief, womanizer, and killer, rapist, untrusted. His religion was of his own
making, invention for his own gain and his Quran is terrorism’s tools need to
be exposed.

you should know that whi is greatest person to be ever born in world of all time…
Then what are ur thoughts about Muhammed… please go through this article… just 1st 10 lines… please its a request….http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_100

Muhammad was “supremely successful” of fooling his followers in his darkness. Nothing was new of him other than bloods & stealing. The outlaw of Muhammad ideology is what we inherited today; it’s a blankest of darkness and through.
Jesus in the other hand planted the seeds of civilization and let
his followers “Apostles “to complete the work and let them to find the path to G-d and spirituality.

This movie is basically the same as another film about Jesus being upset about the business people using the temple for business purposes- not against the religion but against those that misuse the religion for their own selfish purposes. Some of the violence being said would have been done without the movie- this movie has been showing since about March. In Libya many different groups are still fighting for whatever they can get. Same in Egypt. Some other places some are using the movie as an excuse- after they are caught. Many are making money writing in publications like tabletmag.com

The producer is frm israel or watever!! actors are frm difrent arbs countries or watever !! movie was mad in portugal or watever europian country !! Why is USA involved ?? xD that man was killed by el kaida in magreb not by ppl who manifest against the movie but then again media fooled us all *-*

Christians are always making the Muslims out to be bad……
You dont check what your Holy bible says about killing and murdering people…
You not reading your Bible properly…. Jesus say’s

Luke chapter 19 v 27…
{19:27} But those mine enemies, whichwould not that I should reign over them, bring hither, andslay [them] before me.
and again……
“God” in the bible say’s… Kill every man, woman & child
Numbers chapter 31 v 17
{31:17} Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill
every woman that hath known man by lying with him.

I think my friend you will find that the Islamist are managing to do that all by themselves, there lastest stream of savegary and barberism would suggest there are many factions among muslims doing a fine job all by themselves, and need no help… Zunaid it is not Jews or Christians who are rioting and destroying there own lands and people they are also not strapping bombs to there wives and children and blowing in to a million pieces there fellow men. its always the same blame everyone except the muslims.

Jews and palastinians co existed for many years before the intervention of Hammas, Isreal is a small state with a border nine miles wide it is nothing more than an afront to the Arab world, its mear exsistance is a simbol of distain to the islamists, they hate for the sake of hate they hate prosperity and love and peace.

Zunaid Le Roux, you are possibly a South African Muslim, Do you accept the FACTS
that King David and King Solomon were in what is Israel today? Do you accept the fact that King Solomon built the temple.?Do you accept the fact the El Aksa Mosque only came centuries, later? How can you EVER dispute the rights of the tribes of the Bible
to live in their land as well. Where and how did the Muslim faith start. Was Abraham’s
wife ( his first and real wife ) A Muslim? NO ! What is today Israel and Citizens called Israelis NOW , was the land of the JEWS ! People should not defame other religions. BUT this goes for Muslims too. These Radical Fanatics are a scourge on the face of thee earth!They can burn bibles, call Christians and other religions INFIDELS and carry on regardless, YET they cannot take what they deal out so liberally to others. Then they go on a rampage, destroying, MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE,
like hooligans and banshees! What Religion is that? What Phrophet would want Innocent people killed? They go and live in Western Christian Countries, KNOWING it is a Christian Country and want THEIR WAYS there. yet WHEN CHRISTIANS OR ANY OTHER RELIGIONS GO TO THEIR MUSLIM COUNTRIES THEY HAVE TO OBEY AND LIVE MUSLIM WAY- which they do. Is that not the reason WHY people distrust Muslims, prefer them to remain in their Muslim Countries and WHY Muslims are considered a Risk and a Suicide Bomber or Terrorist may be lurking in disguise?
WHO is responsible for the Suicide Bombings, the Terrorists acts in this World today? Facts are FACTS !

An intriguing discussion is worth comment. There’s no doubt that
that you should write more about this subject, it may not
be a taboo subject but typically people don’t speak about such subjects.
To the next! Kind regards!!

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